On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:30:38PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 23:18 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Thanks! It looks good. I'm planning to collect your patches, test them
> > and send them for inclusion into the kernel.
>
> Is orinoco_usb anywhere near being stable enough for kernel inclusion? I
> mean, obviously, it's not that stable now, but if we organised a weekend
> where we got together on IRC, would we be able to improve the state of
> things?
I doubt it. The basic problem is that since the original author died,
no-one has showed up who has the hardware, and the skills and the
interest to pull it into shape.
> Well, that is, if there is still interest in the driver. No new devices
> use orinoco_usb, do they? How many people still use this driver? Is it
> worth maintaining anymore, or should we put it down now so as to not let
> it die a slow and painful death?
It's been doing that for years. People still keep trying to use it,
because the hardware is still out there.
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